Wunderschöne live Aufführung dieser fein komponierten Balladen im gut phrasierten Tempo mit klarem Anschlag des Klaviers und effektiver Dynamik. Echt genial!
Sorry this is way above "Hollywood", Hollywood could learn from this. By the way both Schumann's loved these works. Glenn Gould played the 4th Ballade nonstop at times he loved it so much. Ask any pianist and they will tell you these are major works of the highest order.
I have a probem with the piano music of Brahms. Some of it is just too heavy, as if written for a handful of thumbs (we could never say that of Chopin or Schumann!). The melody at 15.23 onwards strikes me as "cheap", "Hollywood" and sentimental with an accompanying figure that does nothing to distinguish it (the way Schumann might) and its development at 19.40 borders on the trivialI/silly. I suppose it is no worse than the sentimental pages of Dickens, merely a sign of the times. But it limits the great satisfaction I get from other aspects of this great 19thC . I think it is something about his concept of the piano that does this as the strings do not seem to elicit anything comparable. Even so, much beauty and emotional richness here, perfectly conveyed by Gilels.
Holy cow! cheap and hollywood the 4th ballade?!! I suggest you listen to it a bunch of times, if you don't dig it then there may be a problem with your understanding Brahms in general.
4th is not cheap to me. Not music I am used to. Used to Haydn & Mozart. I always wonder if being strong fan of one art style prevents to enjoy other. Idea of spoling ones taste is usually targeted at cheap art.
jednoduch, taste can always be expanded, music is just good or not in any era, and music often needs to be appreciated in consideration of its historical context. I also was almost exclusively into Mozart many years back, but now love the good music from the early medieval era to present time, and I still regard Mozart as one of few greatest geniuses.
gilels quel génie ,, un des plus grands interprètes de brahms entre autres ,, un des plus grands pianistes du 20 eme siècle
Gilels played with remarkable sensitivity. Great musicianship. Beautiful pieces
Wunderschöne live Aufführung dieser fein komponierten Balladen im gut phrasierten Tempo mit klarem Anschlag des Klaviers und effektiver Dynamik. Echt genial!
Superb renditions of these pieces -- among several other renditions I've heard only Michelangeli's rival these.
Sorry this is way above "Hollywood", Hollywood could learn from this. By the way both Schumann's loved these works. Glenn Gould played the 4th Ballade nonstop at times he loved it so much. Ask any
pianist and they will tell you these are major works of the highest order.
The 2nd one is just....sigh.
I have a probem with the piano music of Brahms. Some of it is just too heavy, as if written for a handful of thumbs (we could never say that of Chopin or Schumann!). The melody at 15.23 onwards strikes me as "cheap", "Hollywood" and sentimental with an accompanying figure that does nothing to distinguish it (the way Schumann might) and its development at 19.40 borders on the trivialI/silly. I suppose it is no worse than the sentimental pages of Dickens, merely a sign of the times. But it limits the great satisfaction I get from other aspects of this great 19thC . I think it is something about his concept of the piano that does this as the strings do not seem to elicit anything comparable. Even so, much beauty and emotional richness here, perfectly conveyed by Gilels.
comment ne pas aimer le duo magique brahms gilels
Brahms op116 is my favorite composition ever written for the piano
Holy cow! cheap and hollywood the 4th ballade?!! I suggest you listen to it a bunch of times, if you don't dig it then there may be a problem with your understanding Brahms in general.
4th is not cheap to me. Not music I am used to. Used to Haydn & Mozart. I always wonder if being strong fan of one art style prevents to enjoy other. Idea of spoling ones taste is usually targeted at cheap art.
jednoduch, taste can always be expanded, music is just good or not in any era, and music often needs to be appreciated in consideration of its historical context. I also was almost exclusively into Mozart many years back, but now love the good music from the early medieval era to present time, and I still regard Mozart as one of few greatest geniuses.